The Beatles · The Remastered John Barrett Tapes
Rain
Rain is in C major at 107.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
108 BPM · Andantemedian of 231 analyses · 107.8–108.2 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 89%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 231people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 556.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.4Hz · -22 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.85dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.941Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 0.988Essentia's danceability, 0–3
Source: AcousticBrainz, dump of 2022-06-23 (CC0) · MusicBrainz core data, 2026-09-17 (CC0) · how each number is measured. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.
What the numbers say
231 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 89% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 231 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 107.9 BPM one beat lasts 556.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 139 ms and a dotted eighth 417.1 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 54 BPM, counted twice as fast 215.8. A score would mark that Andante, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.4 Hz, which is 22 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — the sort of drift a tape machine or a slightly different mastering leaves behind. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 2.85 dB: that is how far the level wanders from its own average, so a small number means a loud, flat master and a large one means a recording that still breathes. Its average loudness is 0.941 on Essentia's 0-to-1 scale, which is not decibels and is not comparable to a streaming service's number.
10 other recordings here are in C major; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.
Beats per bar are not in this dataset. AcousticBrainz's analysis reports a tempo, a key and a loudness, and no time signature at all, so this page does not print one — a 4/4 here would be a guess dressed as a measurement.
Keys that fit with C major
Each of these differs from C major by at most one accidental, or shares its tonic. That is the whole of what a mixing wheel encodes; here the relations are named instead of numbered.
Delay times at 108 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2224.3 | 0.45 |
| Half note | 2 | 1112.1 | 0.9 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 834.1 | 1.2 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 556.1 | 1.8 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 370.7 | 2.7 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 417.1 | 2.4 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 278 | 3.6 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 185.4 | 5.4 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 208.5 | 4.8 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 139 | 7.19 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 92.7 | 10.79 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 69.5 | 14.39 |
Half time 54 BPM · double time 215.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (556.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
The same title by somebody else
Matched on the title alone, so this list can hold a different song that happens to share a name. Nothing here claims one is a cover of the other.
Closest in key and tempo
- Red MoneyDavid BowieC major108BPM
- Ticket to Heaven3 Doors DownC major108BPM
- Down on the CornerCreedence Clearwater RevivalC major108BPM
- Bang My HeadDavid Guetta feat. Sia & Fetty WapC major108BPM
- Come On EileenKevin Rowland & Dexys Midnight RunnersC major108BPM
- Spirit VoicesPaul SimonC major108BPM
- Down on the CornerCreedence Clearwater RevisitedC major108BPM
- The CeltsEnyaC major107BPM
- VolunteersJefferson AirplaneC major107BPM
- Monday MorningFleetwood MacC major107BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 108 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 108 BPMC major at 100–109 BPMThe Beatles
MusicBrainz collapses 35 recording ids into this one. Recording id 3053c12e-7426-414f-b8b5-fd553c593cd6.